Stage 4. Support your speech
The main goal is to add ‘flesh’ to the speech ‘skeleton’ and make it ‘tasty’ for the audience.
Key areas to concentrate on:
1. Different forms of supporting materials (SM)
- visual aids (handouts, photos and pictures, slide presentations),
- audio aids
- Power point presentation
2. Argumentation & reasoning
- illustrations and underpinning
- contrapositions
- metaphors and allegories
- rhetorical frameworks
3. Working on your active vocabulary
- type of language you use
- ‘junk’ words
Recommended performances and roles:
· Word of the day
· Book / Film / Art presentation
· Speech
Recommended task for homework:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs
Clubs: